Ip and Data Solutions
Last Updated: Monday 10 November 2008
UK businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the power of converged communications and internet protocol (IP) technology to improve their IT environments and help them compete more effectively.
This growing awareness represents a huge opportunity for carriers and service providers, but the challenge is being able to offer an attractive array of flexible, secure and durable data and IP solutions at the right price.
Cornerstone work with leading suppliers to offer tailored packages to suite ever type of business or organisation.
IP Solutions
IP Solutions are critical and complementary elements of any managed network and hosting solution. Cornerstone's approach means the entire solution is seamlessly managed, end-to-end.
VoIP (voice Over Internet Protocol)
Major advantages for small businesses:
Cost
The major advantage of not paying per call - and on length of call and on the destination location - results in substantial savings. You still do pay for calls to PSTN numbers but you tend to pay less. Calls between your own offices across the country can all be free. As calls to other VoIP users are free your call costs are likely to go down as more people sign up for VoIP.
Manageability
Employees spread all over the country working from branch offices (or even their homes) can all be given extensions of a single number with the ability to route calls between themselves. Customers are unaware that employees aren't all in one central office location. There are numerous other advantages to this better control.
Equipment
While having VoIP phones involves it own equipment it does dispense with the complexity, cost, and training that most PBX equipment demands.
New features
VoIP allows businesses to access new features they may not have enjoyed before e.g., video conferencing.
Integration (or "Convergence")
You can better integrate your phones, voicemail, email, SMS, faxes and other communication.
Feedback/Monitoring
You can get better stats on phone usage, better monitor remote phone users' phone time etc.
Transmission solution
Business data is the very life blood of every organisation. Critical business data, if lost, corrupted or stolen can have devastating effects on the smooth running of the office.
Cornerstone data solutions offers you a cost effective and easy-to-use data backup solution which automates all processes required to ensure your data is securely encrypted and then backed up locally and then again in one of our state of the art data centres.
